About OCAD U CO

We launched OCAD U CO with a mission to extend the 142 years’ experience and impact of OCAD University to new audiences in the public and private sectors.

We’re OCAD U CO, a new business of OCAD University.

We’re an executive training studio with a mission to help industry leaders and their teams use creative problem solving to drive innovation and change.

We’re located in a stunning new facility on Toronto’s waterfront where we facilitate creative problem-solving, research and training. Our approach is grounded in a rigorous and disciplined approach to the creative process: problem framing, user research, prototyping, and implementation.

We also specialize in strategic foresight, inclusive design, systems thinking, and approaches that humanize emerging technologies to increase adoption and de-risk innovation.

Why did we start OCAD U CO?

We’ve realized that in every sector, change is increasing in frequency and scale. As a result, the demand for creative problem solving is rapidly rising as traditional approaches have become ineffective. Organizations have told us that they’re facing pressure to better anticipate, understand and respond to complex changes in order to uncover bold innovation opportunities.

To help leaders and organizations face these challenges, OCAD U CO’s integration of creative methods with business practice has the goal of empowering teams to tackle bigger and bolder opportunities that go beyond the status quo.

We believe that traditional methods of learning new innovation skills are — to be frank — boring and ineffective

Want to learn more?

Talk to us about your team and we’ll help you identify the best solution to suit your needs.

Founded in 1876, OCAD U is dedicated to art and design education, practice and research and to knowledge and invention across a wide range of disciplines. OCAD U continuously builds on its traditional, studio-based strengths, adding new approaches to learning that champion cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and the integration of emerging technologies. In the Age of Imagination, members of the OCAD U community are uniquely qualified to act as catalysts for the next advances in culture, technology and quality of life for all Canadians.

OCAD University’s new business, OCAD U CO, is an executive training studio that uses creative problem solving to drive innovation and change. In a first for North America, we make the deep knowledge and capabilities of OCAD University available to industry leaders and their organizations. OCAD U CO is located in a stunning new facility on Toronto’s waterfront, which serves as a dedicated space for transformation.

For over a decade, I’ve been helping large organizations develop radical customer-centricity through design-led innovation. I’ve gone end-to-end on breakthrough innovation projects: from identifying new and emerging opportunities, to standing up MVP launches with tens of thousands of users.

My work has involved leading strategy, capability-building, and breakthrough concept development efforts for firms like BMO, Great-West Life, Barrick, City of Toronto, RBC, TD, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and others.

Prior to leading OCAD U CO, I led large-scale design-led innovation programs for some of Canada’s largest organizations at Doblin, the human-centred innovation consultancy at Deloitte.

I’m a proud OCAD U alum, with a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation.

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